Cópulo, cópulas, pen. cor. copulâte. Plin. To couple or ioyne togither.An hæc inter se iungi copularí que possint? Cic.Copulando verba iungere.Cic.Coniunctionibus copulari, Dissolutionibus relaxari, contraria.Cic.Copulare vno vinculo. Liuius. Copulare concordiam.Liu.To reconcile: to make at one.Copulare cum præsencibus futura.Cic.Copulare sermonem cum alijs.Plaut.To talke with.Societatem copulare cum deo. Plin. Voluntates copulare.Cic.
cōpŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1 (part. perf., contr. cōplata, Lucr. 6, 1088; dep. collat. form cō-pŭlor, āri, v. I. A. b. infra), v. a. [copula], to couple, bind, or tie together, to join, connect, unite (class.; most freq. in Cic.). I.Lit.A. In gen. (a). With cum: hominem cum beluā, Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 139 fin.: caput et corpus cum aliquo, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 130. —(b). With inter se: inter se quaedam possint coplata teneri, Lucr. 6, 1088.—(g). With dat.: aurum auro, Lucr. 6, 1078: utrimque Armeniae majori Sophene copulatur, Plin. 6, 13, 16, 41.—(d). With ad: caput animalis ad pedem, Veg. 3, 49, 2.—(e) With simple acc.: diversae insociabilesque arborum naturae copulantur, Plin. 17, 19, 30, 137; Mart. 12, 43, 8.—b. In dep. form: adeunt, consistunt, copulantur dexteras, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 38 Wagn. ad loc.; cf. Non. p. 476, 16; 479, 24, and Prisc. p. 797 P., and Ussing ad loc. (others explain dexteras as acc. of the part, or Gr. acc.).—B. Esp., to confront: copulati in jus pervenimus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, 148.—2. Mid., to associate with: cave siris cum filiā meā copulari hanc, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 20.—II.Trop., to join, connect, unite. (a). With cum: sermonem cum aliquo, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 42: futura cum praesentibus, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45: honestatem cum voluptate, id. Ac. 2, 45, 139: equestrem ordinem cum senatu, id. Phil. 2, 8, 19: se cum inimico, id. Sest. 64, 133.—(b). With inter se: ah haec inter se jungi copularique possint?Cic. de Or. 1, 51. 222.— (g). With dat.: quid naturae copulatum habuit Alcibiadis somnium?Cic. Div. 2, 69, 143.—(d). With acc. only: libenter copulando verba jungebant, ut sodes pro si audes, etc., Cic. Or. 45, 154; cf.: verba copulata (opp. simplicia), id. ib. 32, 115: constructio verborum tum conjunctionibus copuletur, tum dissolutionibus relaxetur, id. Part. Or. 6, 21; Quint. 2, 4, 30; cf. id. prooem. 13: voluntates nostras,
to unite
, Cic. Fam. 3, 4, 2; cf. concordiam, Liv. 4, 43, 11: matrimonium, Just. 1, 10 pr.; Dig. 12, 4, 6 pr.; cf.: copulari matrimonio, ib. 24, 1, 32; cf. ib. 1, 9, 8; and, taedis, Sen. Herc. Fur. 493.—Hence, 1. cōpŭlātus, a, um, P. a., joined together, united, connected: nihil est animis admixtum, nihil concretum, nihil copulatum, nihil coagmentatum, nihil duplex, Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: verba, v. supra, II. d.— Comp.: nihil amabilius nec copulatius quam morum similitudo bonorum, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56.— Sup., Inscr. de Lyon, p. 477, 3.—Adv.: cōpŭlātē, connectedly (late Lat.): copulate dictum est (diequinti), Gell. 10, 24, 1; 17, 7fin.—2. cōpŭlātum, i, n., a joint sentence, the Gr. sumpeplegme/non, called also conjunctum, Gell. 16, 8, 10.
